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Patent GB-190205306-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Automatic Advertising or Display Apparatus.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1902-03-03
Granted: 1902-08-28
Abstract: 5306. Boult, A. J., [Schutz, H. M.]. March 3. Magic - lantern apparatus.- Pictures, diagrams, and other advertising - devices are projected, by apparatus such as that shown in Fig. 1, on a screen, preferably, ground glass, mounted on a frame. The pictures are carried on an endless band which passes over the rollers a, b, c, d and a drum z, the roller d being adjustable to put tension on the band. The band is moved intermittently before the usual arrangement of lenses &c., by means of a ratchet arrangement, consisting of a ratchet disc h, on the end of the drum z, with which a spring pawl on an arm depending from the shaft of drum, engages. The arm is actuated through a pin and slot connection, by a pivoted lever f having forked arms f<1>, f<2> of different lengths to give a quick forward and slow return movement; these arms are tripped alternately by two diametricallyopposite pins on the face of a pinion B, which is rotated through worm gearing by a motor y. The drum has, preferably, pins which engage in perforations in the carrier band, and at the end of each movement of the drum, a spring pin 15 enters one of four perforations in its end, to hold the film in register while being projected. The circuit which supplies the incandescent lamp 34 is controlled by a switch consisting of a disc provided with two concentric broken conducting-rings with which an arm on the end of the shaft of the pinion B makes contact, the circuit being interrupted when the arm comes opposite the broken parts of the rings, thus making the circuit for the projection of the advertisements, and breaking it while the slides are being changed.
Patent GB-190210466-A (GB)
Title: Electrical Appliance for Working Pile Drivers
Inventor: GARVIE JAMES
Filed: 1902-05-07
Granted: 1903-08-06
Abstract: 10,466. Garvie, J. May 7. Winches.-Relates to electrical appliances for working pile - drivers. The electromagnet C is attached to, or detached from, the monkey B as required. The electric, steam, or other winch supplies the power for lifting the monkey by the rope F. The barrel has a cone clutch attached to it, and both run loose on the barrel shaft. A similar clutch is bolted to the cheek of the winch, and a double clutch slides on a feather on the barrel shaft between these two clutches. The lever L worked by the electromagnets b, b<1> is used to move the double cone clutch in either direction. A switch S controls the operations.
Patent GB-190210815-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Feed Devices for Oat Crushers, Corn Mills, and for other like purposes.
Inventor: WALKER WILLIAM
Filed: 1902-05-10
Granted: 1903-03-12
Abstract: 10,815. Walker, W. May 10. Feeding-devices for oat crushers, corn mills, bean slitters, &c. The main supply of the material is contained in the hopper B, the mouth of which is fitted with an adjustable slide D and with a hinged flap E. The feed is delivered upon a vibrating screen F, and, passing through it, is led by an inclined shoot R to the hopper I of the crushing-rolls. The shoot, pivoted to the hopper at j<1>, is connected by links and a bell-crank lever to the hinged flap E, and its weight together with a certain quantity of the feed being counterbalanced, any variation in the quantity of its contents, caused by irregularities of working, acts to open or close the flap E, and thus to control the supply from the hopper B.
Patent GB-190213360-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Chair-spiders.
Inventor: BOLENS HARRY WILBUR
Filed: 1902-06-12
Granted: 1902-10-09
Abstract: 13,360. Bolens, H. W. June 12. Chairs.-Relates to spiders or supports for vertically-adjustable and tilting seats. A pair of lugs B project upwards from a boss A<2>, cast with or secured to the upper end of the hollow adjusting-screw A. The four trough-sectioned arms E, E', which are secured to the seat rest in troughs in a spreader D, pivoted on a pin C between the lugs B, and having downwardly-projecting lugs, which abut against shoulders n to limit the tilt of the seat in one direction ; the tilt in the other direction being limited by lugs abutting on the shoulders k. A spring F bears at one end on seats on the cross-bar G, and at the other against seats f on the lugs B. A bolt H passes through the crossbars G. I, and engages a hand-wheel nut J. The cross-piece I has teeth engaging notches i<2> in the lugs on the spreader D.
Patent GB-190224400-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Carpets
Inventor: NAYLOR THOMAS
Filed: 1902-11-07
Granted: 1903-04-09
Abstract: 24,400. Naylor, T., and Naylor, A. Nov. 7. Carpets.-Ingrain carpets of two plies have the plies bound together by warp threads a of the top ply, which pass downwards and under the weft threads w of the bottom ply, the corresponding warp threads b of the bottom ply floating between the two plies and serving as stuffer warps for keeping the wefts of the two plies apart. Carpets with three or more plies may be similarly woven.
Patent GB-190224865-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Insulating Substances for Cables, Wires and other Electrical Devices.
Inventor: PILKINGTON WILLIAM WINDLE
Filed: 1902-11-12
Granted: 1903-09-24
Abstract: 24,865. Pilkington, W. W., and Ormandy, W. R. Nov. 12. Conduits; conductors, insulating; insulating- compositions.-An insulating-composition is made by adding very fine mineral matter, preferably the waste sandof glass works, or the fine slimes resulting from the crushing and washing of ores, such as quartz slimes from gold quartz, to molten pitch. When the powder is stirred in with difficulty, ordinary field sand is added, and mineral matter of ever-increasing size of grain stirred in until the mass contains 10 per cent. or less of pitch. This material may be cast into troughs for containing bare or covered conductors, or the material poured in round such conductors contained in troughs or pipes. It can be used to replace the wood surrounding the conductors described in Specification No. 22,181, A.D. 1898. Admixtures of pitches, resins, tars, and oils, thickened with this finely-powdered mineral, can be used for coating flexible conductors, a coating of any thickness or degree of hardness being obtained by regulating the temperature employed and the amount of mineral added. The layers of this insulating- substance can be separated by layers of dry or impregnated fibrous or textile envelopes, or by metallic envelopes. The above mixtures are suited for filling joint boxes. They are adapted for coating fibrous or textile material, and for making waterproof non-conducting wrapping-material.
Patent GB-190226476-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Overhead Conductors for Electric Railway and like Systems.
Inventor: KANDO COLOMAN DE
Filed: 1902-12-01
Granted: 1903-04-23
Abstract: 26,476. Kando, C. de. Dec. 1. Electric railways and tramways with overhead conductors. Conductors.-Instead of a single trolley wire, two are used suspended from alternate points of attachment, as shown in thick and double lines respectively, and they are tied together by rods or wires, shown in single thin lines. Each loop may be branched near the support and attached at two points to reduce lateral movement. The points of attachment for both sets of loops may be in the same plane, or alternately on either side, so that the loops need not touch where they pass each other. With this arrangement, the trolley wheels do not come into contact with the supports.
Patent GB-190228680-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Rubber Balloons.
Inventor: FEENY VICTOR FALLON
Filed: 1902-12-29
Granted: 1903-02-26
Abstract: 28,680. Feeny, V. F., [Rubber Balloon Co.]. Dec. 29. Moulding india-rubber toys. - Toy balloons of rubber are made without joints by dipping a core having a stem d and elongated corrugations E, in solution, and allowing the coating to dry with the stem downwards so that the slight running thickens the neck. This core produces sufficient stretching surface and can be easily withdrawn.
Patent GB-190303462-A (GB)
Title: Improved Car Coupling
Inventor: KUNZ CHARLES
Filed: 1903-02-13
Granted: 1904-02-13
Abstract: 3462. Kunz, C., and May, H. Feb. 13, A.D. 1902, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Couplings, automatic; draw-gear.-Relates to car couplings in which the draw-bar is not liable to be broken or lost if it becomes accidentally disconnected from the car. Two sectional elevations are shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and a sectional plan in Fig. 2. The head 6 of the draw-bar 5 has a chamber 7 in which the coupling-jaw 10 is pivoted on a bolt 9. The inner arm of the coupling - jaw extends into the chamber 7 and is pivoted to a bar 11, the rear end of which has a lug 30 movable along a groove 31. The parts are coupled by raising the coupling-pin 26, Fig. 3, until the shoulder 28 rests on the projection 29, so that, when the inner arms of the outwardly-turned coupling-jaws come into contact, they move inwards and slightly displace the coupling-pins until they finally fall and hold the inner arms, Fig. 2, locked. The bent lever 15 is pivoted on a pin 14 within the chamber and is normally pressed by a spring 25 to hold the block 19 ou the shoulder 20. When the draw - bar becomes disconnected, the cord 22, attached at one end to the car 24, is tightened and releases the pivoted catch-lug 16. Further tightening turns the lever into engagement with the coupling-jaw 10, which becomes locked to the coupling-jaw of the adjacent car, and allows the block 19 to fall and lock the lever in position. The block can be raised by means of a chain 21.
Patent GB-190312359-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Filters for Cleansing and Purifying Dirty or Waste Oil or other Liquids.
Inventor: WHITE LEO
Filed: 1903-05-30
Granted: 1903-07-23
Abstract: 12,359. White, L. May 30. Tank and cistern filters.-Relates to filters for cleansing and purifying dirty or waste oil and other liquids. The oil &c., poured through the strainer s<1> into the upper chamber B, rises through the perforated plate h, cotton waste j, gauze disc g, and grid f, and flows down the pipe e and through a similar filtering-cell B<1> into tha lower chamber. A removable pipe c, to permit the escape of air, is provided. Corrugations r in the sides of the filtering-cells prevent the oil from creeping. The plates h, h<2> are forced upwards, compressing the filtering-medium, by means of nuts k, o. The nut o may be replaced by a screwthreaded plug. The sediment, in the annular well A', and liquid in the chamber B, may be drawn off thiough the cock t<1>. In a modification, a single filtering-cell is employed. For larger tanks, the filtering-cells can be duplicated.
Patent GB-190318586-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Porcelain and other Electric Insulators.
Inventor: LANGDON WILLIAM EDWARD
Filed: 1903-08-28
Granted: 1903-10-01
Abstract: 18,586. Langdon, W. E., Fuller, J. C., and Fuller, G. Aug. 28. Insulators.-Consists of porcelain, hardware, or other electric insulators for supporting aÙrial and other conducting - wires which carry electric currents of high or extra high potential or otherwise, constructed so as to offer the greatest possible resistance between the point of attachment of the wire and the supporting-bolt of the insulator, and to prevent the line-wire from falling, in case of damage to the body of the insulator. The body of the insulator 1 is provided with a threaded or other bolt-hole 2, extending above the circumferential grooves 3, round which the line-wire is passed. The sheds or roofs 4, 5, 6 are so constructed that each upper one completely overhangs all below it, as shown, so that any water or moisture which gathers drips clear of the sheds below. To increase the distance, and hence the resistance, between the linewire and the bolt, the under surfaces of the sheds are formed into serrated ridges with sharp edges 7, this also facilitating the dissipation of moisture which may collect on the under surfaces.
Patent GB-190319794-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Match-boxes.
Inventor: MOLLENHAUER CONRAD
Filed: 1903-09-14
Granted: 1903-11-05
Abstract: 19,794. Mollenhauer, C. Sept. 14. Match boxes.-A catch g normally holds the flaps b, c of a match box a together, and when it is undone springsf throw open the sides and force up the clip d containing the matches, which are preferably of strip form. The igniting-surface h is thus within the box. In the modification shown in Fig. 5, all the binges are combined and there are two igniting-surfaces h, one within each of the side covers b, c.
Patent GB-190321742-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ship's Telegraphs.
Inventor: WATTERS THOMAS CHARLES
Filed: 1903-10-09
Granted: 1904-07-21
Abstract: 21,742. Watters, T. C. Oct. 9. Signals, marine and ship.-At each end of a hydraulicallyoperated ships' telegraph are two pairs of long cylinders fitted with packed rams and connected by piping filled with glycerine or like liquid. The rams terminate in racks which gear in pairs with toothed pinions connected to a handle in one case, and to a pointer in the other. To each indicating-cylinder is fitted a three - way cock, which communicates with a reservoir having a screw plunger, so that liquid may be forced in the cylinders to make up for any leakage.
Patent GB-190322486-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrical Range Finders
Inventor: SHOEMAKER HARRY
Filed: 1903-10-17
Granted: 1903-12-03
Abstract: 22,486. Shoemaker, H. Jan. 10, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Bearings, indicating; range-finders. -To indicate continuously the position of an object on the water, off the shore 2, two sighting telescopes A, A' are kept constantly trained on the object 3 (say). The rotation of each telescope regulates, through a switch, the current passing through a suspended-coil galvanometer, the needle of which is thus kept parallel to the telescope. The needles 45, 48 in this way give by their point of intersection, 6, on a chart, Fig. 2, drawn to scale, the position of the object under observation. To regulate the current passing through the galvanometer, each telescope may have attached to it a radial switch-arm working over contacts to cut out and put m resisiances proportioned to give the needle of the galvanometer a step-by-step motion closely approximating to that of the telescope. This motion may be made continuous with the arrangement shown by Fig. 7. The rotation of the telescope 8, about a vertical axis, drives, through spur gearing 21, 22, 23, and 24, a shaft 27, upon which a coil of resistance wire is wound. One end of this wire is fixed to the shaft and the other, after passing around a roller 30 at the bottom of a bath of mercury, is wound on a spring drum 32. One terminal 37 is on the shaft 27 and the other 38 is on the mercury bath. As the telescope rotates, therefore, the wire winds and unwinds from the bobbin 26 and thus determines the resistance in circuit. To secure a movement of the needle identical at all parts of the scale with that of the telescope, the bobbin 26 may be thicker at one part than another to give off an increased length of wire per revolution. The pole pieces of the magnet used in the galvanometer are deeply curved to form an almost complete cylinder for the coil to work in.
Patent GB-190324935-A (GB)
Title: Process and Apparatus for the Production of Water Gas, Producer Gas and the like.
Inventor: SCHMIDT PAUL
Filed: 1903-11-16
Granted: 1904-07-07
Abstract: 24,935. Schmidt, P. Nov. 16. Gas - producers. -Relates to producers in which the gases containing tar, generated at the top of the fuel, are drawn off and injected by a steam injector into the lower part of the fuel column. These gases escape from the generator a by channels b to a downdraught pipe c, and are injected by the injector d into the hottest zone of the column. From this zone, a pipe e leads to the top of the pipe c, so that hot gases are drawn into the latter, and mix with the colder gases containing tar, preventing condensation. Dampers f are provided to regulate the amount of gas from each zone. In another form, Fig. 4, the downdraught pipe c is jacketed by a pipe t supplied with hot gas by a pipe s connected with the dischargepipe g. An inclined grate k, which may be flat or convex, is used, and may be arranged above a box m serving as an ashpit and also for admitting the air-blast, or may overhang the water seal, Fig. 4. The openings in the grate nearest the lower end of the pipe c are made larger than the others, so as to supply more air at this point. Stoking-holes o are provided above the grate, and others may be placed above these on the same or on the opposite side, Fig. 4. The discharge-pipe g has a shut-off valve to enable the gases to be blown out on starting, and the pipe c has a dust-collector l.
Patent GB-190404589-A (GB)
Title: Process of Making Milk Extract similar to Meat Extract
Inventor: BINDER XAVIER
Filed: 1904-02-24
Granted: 1905-02-16
Abstract: 4589. Binder, X. Feb. 25, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Food preparations.-In preparing an extract of milk, similar in composition to extract of meat, milk is first deprived of its fatty constituents by a centrifugal separator. The casein is then precipitated by rennet or acid, and the albumen by heating. These proteids are then peptonized by treatment with dilute sulphuric acid, which is afterwards neutralized by calcium carbonate. The lactose in the serum is crystallized, fermentation being prevented by hydrogen peroxide, and the salts are then boiled in a dilute solution of potassium carbonate. After the addition of phosphoric acid, and boiling, the peptonized matter is added, the whole boiled with the addition of mono-potassium phosphate, and concentrated at a low temperature.
Patent GB-190409964-A (GB)
Title: Electrical Percussive Drill.
Inventor: CENTNER PAUL
Filed: 1904-04-30
Granted: 1905-01-26
Abstract: 9964. Centner, P. April 30. Rock drills.-in an electrically-operated percussive rock drill, the tool d is fitted at the end of a cylindrical stem e on which is fitted the inductor g of an electric motor, the reciprocating motion of which is obtained by sending two alternating currents of different frequencies through the windings of the stator h, as described in Specification No. 9859, A.D. 1904, [Abridgment Class Dynamo-electric generators &c.]. The ends of the cheeks carrying the stator are bolted to journals n, with ball-bearing rings q turning in bearings on slides c, which are connected together by bolts and are capable of longitudinal adjustment on the carriage a by a screw b. A spring serves to store up the energy on the return stroke of the stem e. The rear journal n carries a ratchetwheel r engaged by a pawl s operated by a small cylinder u. The end of the stem e is square and on the return stroke compresses the air in a cap w, thus operating the cylinder and partially turning the stator, and with it the tool, once for every blow of the drill.
Patent GB-190412225-A (GB)
Title: Devices for use in Starting a Motor Cycle
Inventor: FRIEDRICH SCHULTEN
Filed: 1904-05-30
Abstract: 12,225. Schulten, F. June 6, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Void. [Published under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Supports ; starting, facilitating.-Consists of a starting-device for a motor cycle by which the rear or driving wheel is raised clear of the ground while the motor is started. The supporting- device, shown in Fig. 1, comprises the fork a pivoted to the wheel axis, and the forked rest f, hinged to the fork a and connected to it by a strap c, the length of which may be adjusted by a thumb-nut and screw sliding in a longitudinal slot. The rider, after starting the motor by pedalling, pulls the cord m and brings the brake shoe b, which is connected to the fork a, into contact with the wheel r, so that the supporting - device is rotated rearwards until the pin p, by engaging with a hole o in the spring i, suspends it clear of the ground. The driving-wheel is simultaneously lowered to the ground, and the cycle commences to move forward.
Patent GB-190412876-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Combined Brakes and Mud Guards for Automobiles and other Vehicles
Inventor: FISHER FRANK LEONARD
Filed: 1904-06-07
Granted: 1904-08-04
Abstract: 12,876. Fisher, F. L. June 7. Brakes; mud guards.-A combined brake and mud guard 11, Fig. 2, is pivoted on an arm 8, which is normally held vertical. The lower end of the arm 8 is secured on a shaft which is pivoted in a bracket 5 and is formed with a lever 4 connected to an operating-lever 2 by a rod 3. The mud guard is corrugated, and formed so as to overlap the sides of the periphery of the wheel. It is held horizontal, when the arm is in the normal position, by means of a spring 14, Fig. 3, which bears upon a triangular block 13 on the arm.
Patent GB-190414086-A (GB)
Title: A Locking Lever for Compasses, Calipers & like Instruments
Inventor: WADDINGTON EDWIN
Filed: 1904-06-22
Granted: 1905-02-16
Abstract: 14,086. Waddington, E. June 22. Calliper and like gauges.-Callipers and like instruments have joints which can be locked by means of a lever A, which is either fixed to a screw, as shown, or screws on a loose bolt forming the pivot of the joint.
Patent GB-190422067-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Change Till and Coin Tester.
Inventor: ELL WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1904-10-13
Granted: 1905-01-26
Abstract: 22,067. Ell, W. H. Oct. 13. Coins, testing; money-delivering apparatus.-A till carrying the amounts of change for two denominations of coin has an adjustable weighttesting poise g, Fig. 2, which is overbalanced by the insertion of a sufficiently heavy coin, while a light coin will pass out through a suitably-curved shoot i. The poise may be used separately as a coin tester, light and heavy coins being delivered at opposite sides of the device. The change for a valid coin is delivered in a flat box standing under a pile of similar boxes in a manuallyactuated drawer, which is freed by the coin dropping on the continuation of a catch. On pulling the drawer, a stud, by bearing on the edge of the coin, depresses the catch and shifts it out of the path of a second stud on the drawer. The coin may, instead, fall on a ledge n<3>, Fig. 8, and will then be acted on by the butt of a rack m on the drawer in such a manner as to disengage a pivoted pocket n' acting as detent. The coin is finally pushed off the ledge into a box below. In a modified form, the coin lifts a slide by an incline thereon so that a projection on the drawer comes in register with a slot in the slide. In another arrangement, the coin drops into a pivoted pocket t<1>, Fig. 14, and lifts, to disengage from a stud, the detent s, which pivots on the drawer and finally overturns the pocket t<1> by the action of a projection s<4>.
Patent GB-190502424-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Mosaic Pavements.
Filed: 1905-02-07
Granted: 1905-06-22
Abstract: 2424. Schlentheim, L., and Diespeker, Ltd. Feb. 7. Mosaic paving.- To minimize cracking, mosaic pavements &c. are divided into isolated portions 1 by spacing seams 3 of asphalt or other semi-elastic mineral extending preferably to the bottom of the cement bedding 2. The pavement &c. is set up with wood or plaster spacers, which -are afterwards removed, asphalt being then poured in. As alternatives to rectangular cross-sections of seams, shapes with straight or curved edges, converging or undercut, may be used.